Re: [Schemix-devel] Testing under UML

[William Bland]

Hi Cory,

Sorry for the even longer than usual response time!

> From what I remember, get_user and put_user are C macros for
reading/writing user-space memory, from kernel-space.  You can't just
do a memcpy in this situation since the kernel and user programs live
in different segments.  Maybe that's not the case in UML and you can
get away with a simple memcpy?

This page seems to suggest that UML does have a get_user and put_user though:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~dahlin/Classes/UGOS/labs/labUML/labUML.html
Looks like the macros should be in include/asm-i386/uaccess.h
I have to admit I've never actually run UML!

Hope that's of some help - sorry I don't know more about this stuff.

Cheers,
Bill.



On 26/12/06, Cory Cross <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I've almost got Schemix running under user-mode Linux. Almost,
> because there is no "__put_user_1" function available in UML (or at
> least the default Debian build). It's used for writing to the program
> reading from /dev/schemix. Bill, this is your code right at the end of
> schemix.c, in function "device_read". Any idea on how to replace this
> short part?
>
>     I've written up instructions on how to compile for UML if we can get
> this bug worked out.
>
> Thanks,
>     Cory Cross
>
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